I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth.

Meaning

Sniveling is an interesting word. You snivel when you turn your nose up at something that you consider beneath your station. It’s the opposite of groveling. Whitman’s speaker does not snivel at anything at all yet considers many on Earth do. Perhaps too many take things on Earth for granted.

The second line talks of wasted time. The months being vacuous denotes that speaker is wasting too much time and not filling it with anything meaningful. It’s an empty life and empty existence much like the ground when left untended or unsown. It becomes filth, worthless, and fallow.

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